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Matthew Knott8:16 AM
The Abbott government is trying to strike a last-minute compromise deal with Senate crossbenchers on university fee deregulation by proposing the equivalent of a mining "super profits tax" for universities that increase their fees over current levels.

Judith Ireland 8:19 AM
The Abbott government is looking for fresh ideas to tackle the gender gap in Australian offices, asking the University of Melbourne to devise a Workplace Gender Equality Strategy.

Matthew Knott11:01 AM
Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull has declared his "ticker is in very good shape" when asked if he has the courage to challenge Prime Minister Tony Abbott for the Liberal Party leadership.

Michael Gordon8:18 AM
Australian of the Year Rosie Batty is poised to back a call by Labor leader Bill Shorten for a national crisis summit on violence against women to be convened as a matter of urgency.

David Wroe7:23 PM
An extra 300 Australian troops are being sent to train Iraqis in the fight against the Islamic State terror group, with Tony Abbott refusing to rule out boosting the deployment further.

Peter Hartcher
The rise of the barbarians of the so-called Islamic State is rightly concentrating a lot of time and energy in the civilised world. Yet while we remain preoccupied with this new danger, the old ones are rampant.

Michael Pascoe
There will be all sorts of collateral damage accompanying Tony Abbott’s presumed demise with Peta Credlin and Joe Hockey only the most obvious. What chance it also means the end of the Palmer United Party?

Paul Sheehan
In an interview with Tony Abbott in 2010 about his shadow ministry, what struck me most was his singling out of one person above all, describing him as having prime ministerial potential. That person was Scott Morrison. I didn't see it then. I see it now.

Political leaders often become well-known for a physical attribute. John Howard's eyebrows gave cartoonists, a whole new visual thesaurus for expressing his moods. Kevin Rudd's hair – studiedly casual, endlessly susceptible to breeze – became an allegory for the man himself.

James Massola
It's not hard to imagine that Tony Abbott might have looked wistfully back across the Tasman to Australia once or twice on this quick trip and pondered what a difference a couple of thousand kilometres can make.

Judith Ireland When Scott Morrison fronted the National Press Club this week, he was careful to point out that the McClure report into welfare he had just released was a "report to government, not from government".

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